Biden asks if deceased congresswoman is present at White House food insecurity conference

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President Joe Biden on Wednesday asked if a congresswoman who died last month was present at a White House food insecurity conference.

At the event, the White House’s first hunger conference since 1969, Biden took a moment during his remarks to credit a list of bipartisan elected officials. All of the officials he listed were behind a bill establishing Wednesday’s conference, and the late Indiana Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski was a co-sponsor.

“I want to thank all of you here for including bipartisan elected officials like Rep. (Jim) McGovern, Sen. (Mike) Braun, Sen. (Cory) Booker, Representative – Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? I think she wasn’t going to be here – to help make this a reality,” Biden said.

Walorski, who was 58, died last month in a car accident that also killed two of her staffers. She began serving in Congress in 2013. Before her death, the congresswoman was the co-chair of the House Hunger Caucus...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/28/politics/biden-jackie-walorski-hunger-conference

[FreepFryer]

1. Jackie has left the building. (nt)

[Phoenix61]

2. And your point? nt

[Bucky]

3. It's news

Don't snarl at the messenger

[Phoenix61]

28. I was asking the poster what his point was. Do you

have the answer to my question?

[Treefrog]

4. I saw that earlier

It's making the rounds.

[Torchlight]

5. During his push to expand free school meals

earlier today as part of a new national strategy to help end hunger by making at least nine million more children eligible for free school meals—a major first step for free meals for every single student. Job well done, Mr. president.

[Hekate]

9. Ah, the actual news. Amazing thing, that.

Thank you.

[betsuni]

30. +1

[GoCubsGo]

7. I forgot about it, too.

And, I don't have anywhere near the amount of things on my plate as President Biden has had over the past month.

[treestar]

8. Meh he has plenty of details to

Remember. Just remind or tell hi. And move on. It’s not like he claimed airports were attacked in the revolutionary war

[Sogo]

10. The GQP and the media are blowing this way up....

President Biden should issue a statement of apology and sincere condolences to the family for misspeaking and leave it at that.

Acknowledge and move on.

It would take a lot of air out of the GQP balloon....

[lapfog_1]

11. quick, without looking or asking... name all 441 Members of the House?

too hard, ok... name all 100 Senators.

This is a non-story.

There are currently 435 voting representatives. Five delegates and one resident commissioner serve as non-voting members of the House, although they can vote in committee.

[Treefrog]

13. I think the thing is he spoke about her death when it happened.

Issued a statement or some such.

[Hekate]

15. Trump would have blown off her death in the first place

[Treefrog]

16. Probably.

But that's not the story.

[Hekate]

22. True. The story is that hungry American children will be fed

Torchlight. Post 5

During his push to expand free school meals earlier today as part of a new national strategy to help end hunger by making at least nine million more children eligible for free school meals—a major first step for free meals for every single student. Job well done, Mr. president.

[Treefrog]

24. Hey, you don't have to convince me.

Perhaps I should have said that's not the way it's being "played" in the media.

[lapfog_1]

21. West Wing

Some Congressman dies... and CJ issues a stmt by the "President" that the family is "in his thoughts today" when it was clear in the lead up to the stmt not even the senior staff had made much of the death.

Point is, I'm sure Biden issued some remarks... may have even read a statement, but that doesn't mean that because he forgot it, he has some sort of memory issue.

[Captain Zero]

33. I doubt she contributed significantly to the bill or voted for it

She was a Republican assigned to the committee and had the most time in congress of the assigned republicans so she was co-chair.

DID SHE VOTE FOR IT IN THE FINAL VOTE?
DID SHE VOTE FOR IT TO PASS OUT OF COMMITTEE?
I don't know but I would place a bet she didn't.

So he gaffed her name. She was down the line with the Republican obstructionism.

That should have given her more time to find a better driver.

[yardwork]

12. Pathetic attempt to make President Biden look bad.

[TheBlackAdder]

31. THIS! 👍

[USALiberal]

37. Would we had called out trump if he did it? Nt

[W_HAMILTON]

38. No because...

...we would have been too busy calling him out on actual consequential shit.

[BlackSkimmer]

48. Seriously? Like how he wears a diaper maybe? Or the size of his "mushroom?"

Or his hair? Or his cheating at golf? Or his diet?

Right.

[yardwork]

39. Not even worthy of a response.

[Hugin]

40. We wouldn't have heard about it until he lost re-election and it was in a tell all book.

Written by one of his enablers to cash in.

[newdayneeded]

41. Bingo!

[Torchlight]

42. lol ok nt

[Polybius]

44. It would have been a huge story here

Let's be honest.

[Kingofalldems]

14. Bad things about Democrats.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. Do you notice a pattern, King?

[Kingofalldems]

19. This kind of post---

Every-----Single ------Day.

[Tarheel_Dem]

25. Oh, it's been noticed. Trust me on that.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

27. Nothing gets past the King and I

[betsuni]

29. Good one!

[FrankBooth]

20. Every chance they get...

NM

[FrankBooth]

17. Are you concerned friend?

You seem really concerned.

[UnderThisLaw]

26. There's another

equally concerned poster on one of DU’s other subforums. CNN is rapidly becoming the favorite source for a segment of Du

[BlueLucy]

32. Biden has always made gaffs.

It's part of who he is. This is a big nothing burger.

[betsuni]

34. +1

[betsuni]

35. Well, maybe she's there in spirit. Republicans are supposed to be the religious ones.

They suddenly don't believe in miracles? What the hell.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

36. So, what!

[XanaDUer2]

43. Bfd

He's feeding kids

[Patton French]

45. The point being?

Or is this just a hit and run OP?

[Tarheel_Dem]

46. They're always hit and run. nt

[gratuitous]

47. This is coming up a lot, for some reason

At bottom, what's going on here is that President Biden is sharing the glory for doing something good. Yes, Jackie Walorski was killed in a car accident last month, and that apparently slipped Biden's mind when he thanked her for her work on making the conference a reality. The nation reels! Or maybe it doesn't.

After all, George W. Bush appeared miffed when he waved to Stevie Wonder and didn't get an acknowledgment from the performer. The former guy constantly hogged the glory for things he had nothing to do with. The nation survived. And if I had to be in the shoes of any of these men and duplicate their errors, by far I'd rather be in President Biden's shoes, thanking someone who is no longer with us for their efforts in doing something good.